Internet2 Overview, new infrastructure paradigms, and

collaborations

Ann Doyle & Erik-Jan Bos, Internet2

NKN Annual workshop

31 October – 2 November, 2012

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• Many information technologies have roots on university campuses

• Personal Ethernet services created massive campus “innovation test beds”

• Commercial carriers were still offering dial-up service and fighting the Internet technology vision

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Princeton Archway, courtesy of Queerbubbles, Wikimedia Commons

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• Innovation is disruptive

• Advanced networks have become the R&E communities’ ‘distinctive competency’ and have created the foundations for transformation

• R&E innovation has created or re-invented many companies

• Even reluctant companies have become beneficiaries

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The creation of whole new markets has benefited—and driven—our economy

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The innovation story continues…

What R&E does today sets the groundwork for the next stages of Internet development, enables the economies of the future, and puts the global R&E community in a unique leadership position…

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Internet2: An unparalleled human network

• Internet2 brings together thought leaders from member organizations and broader research and education community

• We advance frontiers of network-enabled applications in communities of common interest and purpose

• We accelerate innovation • We enable transformation

350+ member institutions

66,000+ community

anchor institutions

connected

Initiatives, working

groups, special

interest groups

International

partners

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The Internet2 Community

221 Higher Ed members

73 Affiliate members 38 R&E Network

members 62 Industry members

100+ Int’l partners 66,000+ Community anchor institutions

• Agreements between Internet2 and international networking partners offer interoperability and access

• Enable collaboration between U.S. researchers and overseas counterparts

• Create bridges for virtual collaboration between R & E communities and over 100 international R & E networks

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International partners

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Seven strategic focus areas

Advanced network and network services leadership

Internet2 NET+: services “above the network”

U.S. UCAN

National/Regional collaboration

Global reach and leadership

Research community development and engagement

Industry partnership development and engagement

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An ecosystem built on partnerships

Networks: Enablers for Progress

The Roman empire: a road system to enable conquest

18th – 20th centuries: enabling the industrial revolution:

– Canals, roads en railroads

– Post-Telegraph-Telephone

20th century: driving the Digital Economy:

– Internet

‘New networks’ will remain important enablers for economic and social developments

One slide History of NRENs

•Most NRENs (in NA & Europe) started in the late '80s and early '90s of previous century

•Originally just wide-area network innovators: X.25 → ATM → IP

Next, going down into Layer 0 (fiber)

Later on/now, going up into:

– Middleware (DNS, NTP, Id Mgmt, ...)

– Applications (video streaming, …)

– Brokering

More info: TERENA Compendium http://www.terena.org/activities/compendium/

NREN Evolution of Network

Satisfy evolving connectivity requirements

– Very large data streams (>10 Gigabit per second for a single experiment)

– Very large numbers of sensors in various environments

– Collaborating users in various locations

Provide flexible configuration

– Lightpaths controlled by user or application

– Fast configuration change

– Secure access

The Case for NRENs

NRENs are special, providing advanced services to (H)E & R

Spill-over of results into commercial sector of country

Country should cherish the NREN

Can lead to large advances in knowledge economy of country

Dated: January 2009

URL: http://www.terena.org/publications/files/20090127-case-for-nrens.pdf

A Rapidly Changing Environment

ICT has become an integral part of the core processes within institutes for HE & R, and primary processes rely on the availability and continuity of ICT services

High demands coming from ICT-competent users and scarce internal resources at institutes

Huge amount of ICT-service offerings outside of the institute, the innovation continues at fast pace

Complex and quickly moving technology makes it hard to stay up to date

Why Internet2 NET+ Services?

Define a new generation of value-added services from Internet2

• Work with our members and vendors to develop solutions that meet

performance, usability, and security requirements

• Leverage our members’ buying power for better pricing and terms

• Leverage the Internet2 network and other services such as InCommon

User Perspective

More and more data-centered

Research within virtual organizations

Research is a global activity

Clouds and cloud services are coming towards us fast, fueling the discussion “build or buy”

Open Access

Facilities shared and linked by ICT

Examples of high-end data intensive use cases...

Example #1: eVLBI → 1.25 Gbit/s/site

Example #2: LHC → ~ 20 Pbyte/year

Picture of world's strongest magnet, down in the LHC tunnel near Geneva, CH

Example #3: Academy of Motion Picture

More than 2 Pbytes for one entirely digital movie production

Expected: 5 Pbyte/week = 250 Pbyte/year

Global Connectivity and Collaborations Ann Doyle

Engaged Health Communities

• Research

– NIH (NLM, NCI, Cancer Centers)

– Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

– Global Virus Network (GVN)

• Education

– Academic Health Centers

– Medical Schools

• Health Care

– Rural Health Care Pilot Program

– BTOP Networks and U.S. UCAN

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Health Sciences Initiative

• Opens a new, global stage to a new, worldwide audience via high-definition broadcasts

• Opens master classes and auditions to remote musicians

• Enables live multi-site performances

• Unlocks important content collections to worldwide audiences

• Holds performance production workshops

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Arts & Humanities Initiative

• Internet2 initiatives encourage and facilitate applications of high-performance visual communications: collaboration, health sciences, arts and humanities

• Leadership in standards (H.323, SIP, CTS…) and interoperability among product and service providers

• Internet2 Global Video Services, in conjunction with leading NRENs facilitate high quality visual collaboration among researchers and educators in diverse global locations

Internet2 Global Video Services

December 2010 ( http://internationalnetworking.iu.edu/us-india-workshop)

Indiana University

GLORIAD/Taj Project

Funding – NSF, ERnet India

March 2012 (http://internationalnetworking.iu.edu/us-india-workshop-2)

Indiana University

Ernet

NKN

CDAC

Funding – NSF, Indo-US Science & Technology Forum

US – India Network Enabled Research Collaboration Workshops

Over 400 active projects: 160 funded by NSF (average funding $300,000), Close to 150 funded by NIH (average funding $550,000)

Over 100 prominent US universities and research institutions as partners

Approximately 20 major scientific domains.

Over 15 U.S government agencies and organizations provide funding

US – India Scientific Research Collaborations Today

Large investments include:

Energy: 20 big programs

Indo-US Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) - $1 billion

Health and Life Science: 15 big programs

Polio Eradication - $200 million

U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in India - $120 million

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 10 big program, 20 NSF funded projects

Thirty-Meter Telescope(TMT) - $ 300 million

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) - $250 million

US – India Scientific Research Collaborations Today

Thank you! Questions?

Ann Doyle,

Senior Director, Global Programs adoyle@internet2.edu

Erik-Jan Bos

Chief Architect, Global Programs and Services ejb@internet2.edu